Milking apparatus.



No.v 7I2.529. Patented Nov. 4, |902.

S. HENRY. MILKmG APPARATUS.

(Application led Feb. 28, 1902 x ma Model.)

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rvllLkiNG APPARATUS.

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l i Application filed February 26,1902. g Serial No.` 95,'l'79. (No model.) l

To cr/ZZ whom T5 may concern-.-

Be it known that l, STEPHEN HENRY, a cirizen of the United States,and a resident of` udder into the vessel, and thereby all possi-` bility of contaminating the milk is avoided and the milk is in a fully sanitary Condition. Milk when warm and standing in a pail or while passing through the air from the udder into the pail is liable to-collect microbes or` bacteria. In dairies it is customary and desirable to cool the milk ashquicklyaspossi` ble, and I have provided my apparatus with,` a cooling-chamber that maycontain ice or any` other cooling mixture, and the milk isled by` a suitable conduit through the ico'olinglchann` ber and the cooled milk isstrained on its way' into the vessel referred to. l l have provided suitable flexible covers or shields that may be applied to the dugs, andMsaid shields have connected with them suitable tlexible tubes, that lead the milk into the conduitreferred to.`

chamber B, in which is arrangedaconduit B,

shown as a spiral tube having suitable inletpipes b b, said conduit having an outlet at b2 in the bottom of the cooling-chamber. The

shape of this conduit is immaterial so long as it may be'packed inice or other cooling medium placed in the chamber Bl The inlets b b', of any desired number, are shown as extended-.through a hole in a cover C, that closes the upper end of the chamber, and said inlets receive upon them flexible tubes c c, that are connected with flexible covers or shields c c', preferably of pure gum-rubber, that they may be soft and flexible and be readily tted over the dugs they stretch more or less to properly inclose` the dugs. Before milking the udder and dugs will be properly Washed and the shields will be .placed over the flugs and the pipe connected with the conduit, and in this wayit Will be seen that all liability of contaminating the milk being @taken from the dugs and deposited in the `vessel A will be avoided, and also the milk `will be more or less cool and the milk leaving the conduitwill"V be strained before it enters thevessel A.

v Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tos`ecnre by Letters Patent, is-

l. A milking apparatus lcomprising a vesselinto the lower part of which the milk is tobedirected, a cooling-chamber also supported within said vessel fand containing a conduit, a cover for said vessel and coolingchamber, and flexible tubes connected to the conduit in the cooling-chamber and provided attheir ends with dug-covering shields.

2. A milking apparatus comprising a Vessel, a cooling-ohamberya conduit therein, a cover for said cooling-chamber, flexible tubes 4connected with Saidconduit, a dug-covering shield at one end of saidtube, and a strainer In` testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification'in' the" presence of two subscribing witnesses. d,

` STEPHEN HENRY.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, EDWARD F. ALLEN. 

